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Researchers find obesity increases risk for Preterm Birth- McMaster University

Posted: July 31, 2010

Researchers at McMaster University found that ther is a 30 percent increased risk of induced perterm birth before 37 weeks among overweight or clinically obese women.

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Overweight and obese women are at greater risk of giving birth to a preterm baby, new Canadian research finds. And the heavier the woman, the greater the risk.

The findings come from researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, who pooled data from 84 studies involving more than one million women.

They looked at spontaneous preterm births, in which women suddenly go into labour early, and induced births, in which doctors bring on labour, or perform a C-section.

They found that the overall risk of preterm birth before 37 weeks was not significantly different among overweight or obese women compared with normal weight women. But there was a 30 per cent increased risk of induced preterm birth before 37 weeks among overweight or obese women.

The heavier the woman, the higher the risk of induced preterm birth before 37 weeks, with very obese women at 70 per cent greater risk than normal weight women.

(this article taken from CTV.ca news)

The full link to the article can be found at bmj.com here

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